Disturbing Footage Of A Mentally Challenged Man Forced To Drown By Police On Live T.V. (10/29/09)

Disturbing Footage Of A Mentally Challenged Man Forced To Drown By Police On Live T.V. (10/29/09)

Bambalapitiya, INDIA: Mentally challenged man not allowed onshore by police who accuse him of throwing rocks and stones at them and vehicles
passing by. He subsequently drowns as a result....All of it is captured on tape.

this is murder..
the policemen should be charged with murder, im totaly shocked by how the police acted when confronted by what looks like a man trying to give himself
up..
i see no reason why they could not have allowed him to come in and be arrested..
its all caught live no television and there has to be a national outcry over this horrifying film..

Its difficult to entirely understand what is going on since the footage is not in English, but it is clear that they were beating him with sticks and
causing him to back deeper into the big waves crashing on the shore. The behavior of the police is incredibly cruel considering the man is naked and
entirely unarmed.

Edit: after re-viewing he does apparently have some sort of underwear/bottoms on. But this doesn't make their actions any more acceptable.

Oct 30, Colombo: A policeman directly involved in an attack that led to the drowning of a youth in Bambalapitiya yesterday surrendered to the
Bambalapitiya police this afternoon, the police said.
Reportedly the policeman attached to the Bambalapitiya Police was among a group of people who attacked the youth. The youth's body was washed ashore
today.
Police spokesman Senior DIG Nimal Mediwaka said the policeman was not in uniform at the time and he has allegedly aided the attackers.
Colombo Crime Division is conducting investigations to apprehend the other culprits, the spokesman said.

Yes, it's 100% murder, regardless what happened before: of course the video is disturbing, but if stuff like this helps to get some justice, then
it's welcome, imo.
It caught my attention because something similar has just happened in Italy: basically a young drug dealer was arrested, and at the moment of the
arrest he was healthy: no one knows how it has happened, but he died, while in custody . Eight days after his body was returned to his relatives with
broken vertebras and other bones, an horrible injury in the area of an eye, marks of beatings everywhere. No one has yet been able to explain what
happened to him, but the story that they were trying to tell is that the guy slipped and fell. Then, his relatives took some shocking decision: they
published some photos of the body, (now they can be found all over in italian newspapers, but I won't post the link

).
While shocking, i think that their decision was the best possible to take, otherwise there weren't many chances to have some justice: now, after the
scandal, there are some ongoing investigations for what we could roughly translate as "possible manslaughter" (litterally would be involontary
murder), but let's say that it's less severe than some second degree murder: despite no one yet knows what happened, they are already assuming that
no one has some straight fault, while the only thing actually sure is that it has been a murder.

You're right that is murder plain and simple, and there should be a global outcry over what they did to that man. I hope they bring all who were
part of this to trial for murder. That has got to be one of the most disturbing things i have ever seen. I can't believe someone would do that to
another human being

Not understanding Spanish, whose trying to hit this person with those sticks? Police? Not understanding what just happened but nice to see 'Dying'
make it as a spectator sport these days seeing video games are so passe...........................(eye roll)

Originally posted by choche
I´m done with watching videos of people dying, and i did´t see it... but i gave you a S&F just to let this news spread and make a statement

What? You actually wanted to watch him die?? Sicko

Im a criminal justice major and when I see stuff like this it makes me think how neccessary it is to hire the right people, and hire only educated
officers into the Criminal Justice field...

I mean what the hell... Why is he trying to hit the man over and over again, if he was a cop he should have got him up on the beach and handcuffed
him. Let the Punishment fit the crime, ok so nobody was hurt or injured why would they kill the man?! India has a population of 1.0+ billion people,
i hope atleast 50% of them are more intelligent than that. I mean seriously... Beating a man who is already practically drowning, thats wrong on
atleast 10 levels.

No wonder so many of you hate the popo. I do assure you tho that there are many with good intent or rather i say JUST intent.

India has progressed dramatically over the years in many different areas. I guess law enforcement (and hiring policies) isn't one of them. S&F i
hopes of improving this area as well (as to spread the word).

Originally posted by Morbo the Annihilator
Its difficult to entirely understand what is going on since the footage is not in English, but it is clear that they were beating him with sticks and
causing him to back deeper into the big waves crashing on the shore. The behavior of the police is incredibly cruel considering the man is naked and
entirely unarmed.

Edit: after re-viewing he does apparently have some sort of underwear/bottoms on. But this doesn't make their actions any more acceptable.

i have just watched it, it dint disturb me and it certainly wundt distburb people as it dose not show him dieing, it shows in another clip that his
body is flouting in the water, the police wernt pushing him back, he went back begging them to stop, he wundt compile to come back to shore so he went
futher a field, thats how it looks, they were beating him with sticks because he wundt complie

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